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I’m appointed acting director and take over assignment duties for a week, and this is what I come up with? To be fair, the Netflix randomizer, or Stream Crosser can be blamed for this debacle. If 1 trillionth of 1 trillionth of 1% of the total mass of the Internet is occupied by episodes and/or…

Mad Men, the show that does not give a fuck. At the conclusion of Season 6, the SCP partners had put Don on an open ended leave of absence, because even though he’s the main protagonist of the show, he’s also a scumbag that fucks anyone and drinks anything, and for the first time there…

In Westeros, you’re no one if you haven’t almost been raped. At this point, the almost raped/successfully raped camp may outnumber those who have managed to avoid the “rape as a plot device” trick. Counting up those involved in a rape scenario (including rapers and rapees) Sansa, Cersei, Jaime, Brienne in most episodes she appears…

Yes, yes, yes, you can look anywhere for a review of “Breaker of Chains”, the latest fantastic installment of Game of Thrones. If you really want a great review, why not go to Grantland and read Andy Greenwald’s fantastic piece, the depth of which rivals the show itself. Instead, I’d like to wax poetic about…

Alas, His Grace Joffrey Baratheon, the First of His Name, King of the Andals and the First Men, Lord of the Seven Kingdoms and Protector of the Realm has left us all too soon. Or more precisely, Jack Gleeson, who portrayed Joffrey with unbelievable smarm and hearty helpings of unearned hubris and arrogance, combined with…

Review? Who am I kidding. Anything I write about this show could hardly be considered an unbiased review. Game of Thrones had me at hello. More appropriately, Game of Thrones had me at Hell, yo. The question that I can’t quite wrap my head around is, how can the show always be so damn good?…

So we’ve closed out the first season of True Detective. Turns out none of my predictions from last week came to fruition. The True Detectives made it out alive, there was no super-trippy mindfuck, and the conspiracy has (apparently) been brought to its knees. Are you not entertained? Well, I can’t really say that I…

Not nearly enough time to devote to this outstanding show, but I wanted to make sure to post some praise while it was still fresh in my mind. I recently binge watched the first season and absolutely loved it. The level of tactical expertise and strategic talent required to elicit a convincing portrayal of Soviet…

True Detective, an enigmatic creative roller coaster, from both a quality standpoint and a content standpoint. Having had a day to digest episode 7 (I spent my Sunday night watching the Oscars and still haven’t seen the last 10 minutes of Dynamo Daryl Dixon’s Dirty Dance of Death) and had a glance around the Internet,…

So when it comes to true crime TV drama, I’m obviously tough to please. At this point, I’ve seen all of The Wire, and I’ve seen all of The Shield. So if something new is coming at me in the same vein, I’m instinctively looking at them by comparing them to the best of what…